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...news was considerably bolstered by his announcement that second-quarter earnings ($3,822,927) were up a whopping 2.443% from the second quarter of 1938. Bethlehem's common stock greeted this by dropping half a point and the stock market as a whole by backing away from the peak it stopped at two weeks ago (144.71 on the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials...
...Reliable." Conservatively operated, and not overloaded with the fixed charges that have broken the backs of many Class I roads,* efficient "Old Reliable" has never been in receivership, has passed only one dividend on its common stock (1933) in the past 40 years. "Old Reliable's" president is peak-nosed, Cumberland Mountain-born James Brents Hill. Like his predecessors, he likes to keep his employes on the job in L. & N.'s constant drive for courteous, economical operation, sends out frequent "President's messages" to every worker on L. & N.'s 5,000 miles of track...
...those heights Author Mann last week added a peak in the shape of massive, craggy, 786-page Henry, King of France, crammed with up-to-the-minute politics in 16th-Century dress, royal venery, papist deviltry and a necessary quota of ruffs and ruffians...
Against blue Sierra Blanca Peak, the guests pitched their tents, then set about the business of the party: baseball, rodeo performances, powwowing, eating. When night fell the dancing began to the monotonous beat of tom-toms. All night the Apaches danced. Disdaining sleep, they returned to their baseball, rodeo, powwowing, eating. Night came again; again the Apaches danced it through...
...lull that preceded the worst of Depression-United stubbornly bought more utility stocks, by June had increased its assets another 67% to $539,585,596. By March 1931, when U. S. business began a steep two-year nose dive, United had increased its assets to a peak of $594,603,470. Two years later during the famed investigation which sired the Securities Exchange Act, Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora brought out that at that peak the "United group" controlled 22-to-23% of U. S. electric production, some 22% of gas output; and that its half billion dollars of common stocks...